foobar2000 Tech Support Forum Rules

Please read foobar2000 Tech Support Forum Rules before posting and comply with all the points.Failure to provide all the information pointed out in the above document in your post is considered wasting other people's time and in extreme cases will lead to your topic getting locked without a reply.

Obviously 176400 isn't specified, but neither is 88200 and that plays fine. This is why I'm confused.

Indeed, 88200 does show up in the Windows SPDIF properties at the 'Supported sample rates', and 176400 does not, but again, it's the lack of specification for 88200 and the proper playback of that and 192000 but not 176400 which is weird to me.

That is most definitely the problem [or at least the best indicator of the problem] as when I uncheck other sample rates and try to play them I get the same error.

That is to say, foobar's error stems from this not being 'enabled' in the properties.

I suppose the actual question then is: Why does 88200 show up there (while not being officially supported)?

* Never mind! *

Sorry for wasting your time.

My motherboard's audio chipset: Realtek ALC892 supports 32k/44.1k/48k/88.2k/96k/192kHz which makes complete sense that this is what shows up in the properties of the output... Somehow I didn't realise these properties are hardware bound to my motherboard's SPDIF out chipset.